Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of March 2024

The rankings

The top 5% are ranked, the next 5% are listed alphabetically in 1% buckets.

956 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.3% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	3.07
2	Gary S. Becker †	3.38
3	Robert E. Lucas Jr.†	3.58
4	Alan B. Krueger †	4.48
5	Martin S. Feldstein †	4.87
6	Edward C. Prescott †	8.39
7	Clive W. J. Granger †	9.08
8	Martin Ravallion †	10.94
9	Zvi Griliches †	11.06
10	Daniel Kahneman †	11.71
11	Halbert White †	14.95
12	Michael McAleer †	15.04
13	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	15.47
14	Jacob A. Mincer †	15.82
15	Paul A. Samuelson †	16.16
16	Martin L. Weitzman †	16.48
17	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	16.6
18	Edward Lazear †	16.68
19	Kenneth J. Arrow †	18.12
20	Robert M. Solow †	18.96
21	Sherwin Rosen †	20.86
22	Julio J. Rotemberg †	21.84
23	Mike Wright †	21.99
24	Stephen A. Ross †	22.11
25	William J. Baumol †	22.13
26	Rudiger Dornbusch †	22.19
27	Emmanuel Farhi †	22.66
28	Milton Friedman †	23.58
29	Dale W. Jorgenson †	24.42
30	Bennett T. McCallum †	24.69
31	Jonathan Eaton †	25.22
32	Gert G. Wagner †	29.74
33	Martin Shubik †	31.95
34	Mike Tsionas †	35.6
35	Allan H. Meltzer †	35.86
36	James Tobin †	36.33
37	Dale T. Mortensen †	38.03
38	J. Peter Neary †	38.9
39	George J. Stigler †	41.16
40	Oliver E. Williamson †	42.17
41	David Schmeidler †	42.82
42	Douglass C. North †	45.22
43	Clement Allan Tisdell †	46.02
44	Bruce D. Smith †	47.85
45	Stephan Klasen †	47.95
46	Alex Cukierman †	48.79
47	Ngo Van Long †	51.07

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
Richard J. Arnott †, David Backus †, Ansgar Belke †, Gary Chamberlain †, David Dollar †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, Philippe Martin †, Wallace E. Oates †, John M. Quigley †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Paul A. David †, John McMillan †, Merton H. Miller †, James A. Mirrlees †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Piet Rietveld †, James P. Smith †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
Rebecca M. Blank †, James M. Buchanan †, Thomas F. Cooley †, Harold Demsetz †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Jack Hirshleifer †, Steven Klepper †, Robert E. Lipsey †, T. N. Srinivasan †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Peter F. Christoffersen †, Ronald H. Coase †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Robert John LaLonde †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, John Morgan †, Agnar Sandmo †, Herbert A. Simon †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Victor R. Fuchs †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald W. Jones †, Loet Leydesdorff †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Anna Jacobson Schwartz †, Adam Wagstaff †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †,

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Credits:

• Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
• Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
• Author registration by Ivan Kumanov, Minsk, Belarus.
• Institutions database and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
• RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.